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Institutions of Technological Infrastructure (ITI) are various forms of organisations that contribute to the actual or potential techno-economic development of the regions where they are located. Their types actually range from specific institutions created in order to fulfil the functions of technology transfer, R&D funding, consulting in innovative activities, etc., to various kinds of organisations like public research institutes and private firms which, while having other primary goals and rationale, play a role of ITI in their region to a certain extent and for a particular aspect of their activity. Starting from the now classical assumption that innovative development mainly results from interaction between several agents, and that proximity matters (more or less) in the building of such creative networks, ITIs as central actors of the "learning regions" are considered here.
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Bureth, A., Héraud, JA. (2001). Institutions of Technological Infrastructure (ITI) and the Generation and Diffusion of Knowledge. In: Koschatzky, K., Kulicke, M., Zenker, A. (eds) Innovation Networks. Technology, Innovation and Policy, vol 12. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57610-2_5
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